Translation: Soul and Body
In the Longhua Martyr’s Cemetery there’s a tunnel full of all manner of revolutionary sayings, some of them communist, some just generally pushing the reader to fight the good fight.
This one seemed interesting enough:
如果人有灵魂的话，何必要这个躯壳！
If one has a soul, then one must have a body!
但是，如果没有的话，这个躯壳又有什么用处？
However, if one doesn’t have a soul, then what good is a body?
这并不是格言，也不是哲理，而是另外有些意思的话。
This isn’t just some saying, nor is it a philosophy, it’s something else altogether.